Fear Driven Development
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Have you ever not made a much-needed change because you were afraid of breaking something? Caution is wise, but too much fear can leave even the most agile of software organizations with a crippling aversion to change. This talk will discuss what makes us scared, why it hurts us, and my experiences helping a team I managed get rid of some of our fears.
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- 1. 👻👻👻 Fear Driven Development 😨😨😨 Ryan Kennedy -‐ @rckenned ✨💖🌈 🌈💖✨
- 3. This is an emoji-heavy presentation [👌I hope that’s okay with everyone👌]
- 4. I’m Ryan Kennedy Backend Engineer at 🔮 Magic Vibes 🔮
- 6. In my past life… 📬 Yahoo! Mail Web Service Engineer 🎥 NePlix Search and API Engineer 💼 Yammer Infrastructure Engineer/Director
- 7. What is fear? A feeling of anxiety concerning the outcome of something or the safety and well-‐being of someone
- 9. Specific fears develop as a result of learning [😭trauma😭]
- 10. Certain fears are more common than others [🍩 preparedness 🎂]
- 11. Two individuals have a tendency to emotionally converge [☣emoVonal contagion😷]
- 12. Fear fosters flight: A mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emoVon expressed by a whole body –Gelder et al. “observing fearful body expressions produces increased acVvity in brain areas narrowly associated with emoVonal processes and that this emoVon-‐related acVvity occurs together with acVvaVon of areas linked with representaVon of acVon and movement”
- 13. tl;dr fear is contagious [☣]
- 14. Negative emotions are usually more infectious than positive ones [🐵vesVgial insVnct🐵]
- 15. Negative emotions elicit a stronger reaction [🚫negaVvity bias🚫]
- 16. This is terrifying for a large engineering organization [😷💉the heebie jeebie flu💉😷]
- 18. Fear compounds [📈 📈]
- 19. What are humans afraid of? [💀death…💸taxes…🎲unpredictability] and…
- 21. I'm afraid of databases [💻 yet I was paid to build one 💵]
- 25. Scale [🐳]
- 26. Upgrades [🆕]
- 27. Deploying [📦🚢]
- 28. The Unknown [❓]
- 29. What's the downside of fear in software development?
- 30. Fear induced loss of agility [🏃🔜🚶]
- 32. Compounding fears make matters worse 😱 💖 👻
- 33. Fear erects barricades around the code and systems that need the most attention
- 34. Ways of dealing with these fears
- 35. Exposure therapy exposure to the feared object or context, without any danger, in order to overcome anxiety
- 36. Reproducible, extensive testing as a safety harness [💡🔆]
- 37. Development and staging as safe zones [⚾⛳]
- 38. Build confidence on non-critical systems [🎠]
- 39. Double dispatch when replacing existing functionality [✌]
- 40. Hack Day! [🔎]
- 41. Sharing my fears Someone else has probably seen or done this or something like it before
- 42. Decatastrophizing "If the feared event or object happened, what would occur then?"
- 43. Organizational selective amnesia [let the new person do it 🔴👕]
- 44. Where are the managers, architects, leads, etc. at? [👉this talk is actually for/about you👈]
- 45. Are you a source of fear? [👤👈]
- 46. Make time to test [⏳]
- 47. Make time for research [⏳]
- 49. None of this should impact anyone’s personal life []
- 50. Thank you ~~~ 🙇🙏💕~~~ 💯